From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs doesn't inherit PATH from environment Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:11:01 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <861shoe8h6.fsf@zoho.com> References: <864lmkhff0.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518567240 25416 195.159.176.226 (14 Feb 2018 00:14:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:14:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 01:13:56 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1elkhZ-0004u0-5l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 01:13:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elkja-0002Qb-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:15:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: UHWYWQF2IuZrSKObhXEbig.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YGYW5us+hdOjiIJvN/9CDSO0QNA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221879 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115993 Archived-At: Larry Evans wrote: > So, I still can't figure how to get emacs to > find pdf2txt.py in home/evansl/anaconda3/bin/ > by setting PATH somehow. Try to make the example as small as possible. Like a shell script or/and a Makefile that echoes PATH and then execute the script. Also try place a dummy executable in the same dir and execute that. Does that work? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573